Ever wish you could alter the variables in a compiled SWF file without having to re-publish the SWF? Or perhaps inject different XML into a compiled SWF? It turns out it’s not as hard as you might think. Variables are stored in uncompressed SWFs as plain text. So, it’s just a matter of finding that text and replacing it. It’s a little trickier than that, though…
I’m sure many of you multimedia developers out there know the phrase “save early, save often”. I learned from my early days working with Director to not only do that, but to save as a new version every time I made a serious change. As a Flash developer, I’ve found that dealing with multiple FLA’s and corresponding AS files can get rather unwieldy. I assure you, there’s a better way!
Browsing through Sourceforge and other open source software sites, I’d always heard the term CVS. At first, I thought it was only a tool for serious programmers, and that it would be as unusable to the non-programmer as most open source software is.
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